MRL 113 gets fired up for a day's work handling the Paradise local, a turn that worked east to St. Regis, MT and west as far as Trout Creek, MT at the time. Geeps 113 and 127 will handle chips, lu... (more)
Of all the abandonments and tracks ripped out during the Burlington Northern's purge of the 1980's, one of the most short sighted and foolish had to be the removal the Park Branch. Laid in 1883 fr... (more)
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Q train trundles by as it climbs Bozeman Pass, and with only two locomotive pulling it, MRL’s LM (Laurel to Missoula freight) has caught up to it on red signals an... (more)
After switching the grain elevator in Harrison, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local rolls downgrade on the Harrison Branch on June 27, 2016. The 9.5-mile branch out of Sappington, Montana, on MRL’s ... (more)
As another autumn day turns to night on October 1, 2020, the signals light up at West Tuscor, Montana, in response to a couple mouse clicks from the Montana Rail Link dispatcher in Missoula. Not l... (more)